The Roanoke Star and Mill Mountain Park

Today we started our road trip up north to Pop Pop and Ta Ta's new house in New Jersey. To break things up a bit we stopped at Mill Mountain Park and the famous Roanoke Star. We got a little turned around in Downtown Roanoke before finding the road that led up to the park. Once there we checked out the star

and the view of Roanoke

from the viewing platform near the star.

We then had a chilly picnic lunch at the picnic area which just happened to be near the playground. Sierra had a chance to play for a bit

before we headed up to the Blue Ridge Parkway and then over to US-460 for our drive east to Petersburg.